Errata

The New CCD Astronomy

Tabulated by Bert Katzung, to whom the author expresses much gratitude.

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Note:   Col A refers to the left column on a page, and Col B to the right column.

 

Page

Description

39

Column A (left), line 10 from top: “or less the size of your critical focus zone” should be “the size of your critical focus zone or less”

39

Col A, 7 lines from bottom: “close” should be “critical”

40

Col A, line 5: “North American Nebula” should be “North America Nebula;” same in figure itself at bottom right.

67

The conversion from inches to microns is incorrect. It should be 2 microns, not 20 microns.

68

Col A, 11 lines from bottom: “Shaprness” should be “Sharpness”

69

Col A, 15 lines from top: “doens’t” should be “doesn’t”

77

The conversion from inches to microns is incorrect. It should be 2 microns, not 20 microns. Corrected text:

For example, an initial large step size for an f/5 scope with the TCF-S would be (2 * 55) = 110 microns. At 2 microns per step, this yields about 55 TCF-S steps to make up a large step.

80

Col A, last line: “along” should be “alone”

145

Col A, line 7: “D the” should be “Does the”

151

Col B, line 6: “Figure 4.2.19” should be “Figure 4.2.13”

154 Col A, first bullet: "...exposure that..." should be "...exposure than..."

172-3

Four figures are not given the figure numbers that are used in the text. The text under each image applies to that image.

174

Col A, last line: “solor” should be “solar”

175

Col A, line 16: “mount” should be “mounts”

184

Col A, 5th line from bottom: “12V power supplies” refers to the 110V to 12V transformers commonly supplied with astronomy equipment. These are also called ‘wall warts.” The phrase “or use a 12V to 110V converter” should read “or use a 12V to 110V converter and plug your ‘wall warts’ into that. Make sure the converter supplies enough wattage for the equipment you plan to plug into it.”

185

Col A, 4th paragraph from top: Tip from Bert Katzung: “The tail-light patching tape sold in auto stores works great for converting white flashlights to red. It’s like red scotch tape and it’s 2 inches wide. I even put it over the interior lights in my car to reduce disturbances at star-parties.”

189

Col B, half-way down, the text describes performing calibration and then selecting a guide star. If you are lucky enough to have a single bright star suitable for calibration in the field of view, you can select the guide star first, calibrate, and then guide using the same star.

190

Col B, 6th line from top: Tpoint is software available from Software Bisque. It greatly improves the pointing accuracy of most goto telescopes and mounts. It can also provide detailed measurements of how far off your polar alignment is, which helps you achieve a better polar alignment.

196 Col B, first bullet: should be "This increases the area around..."

199

Col B, line 6 from bottom: “optinoal” should be “optional”

203

Col A, 4th line from bottom: “open the Camera Control Panel” should be “open CCDSoft’s Camera Control Panel.”

204

Col A, 8th line from bottom (section heading reference): ‘”Choosing” should be ‘”Choose”

204

Col B, paragraph just above the list of 10 steps: “indictor” should be “indicator”

205

Col B, line 7 from top: “They allow” should be “They require”

207

Col A, line 2 from bottom: “user” should be “use”

209

Table heading should be “CCDSoft Calibration Errors and Solutions.”  However, other camera control programs have similar errors, and the solutions apply to them as well.

219 Table 5.3 should be labeled "ST-7E Image Scale"

246

Figure 6.1.28 legend: “Sclaing” should be “Scaling”

249

Table numbers should be 6.1, 6.2 from top to bottom.

255

Table numbers should be 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6 from top to bottom.

257

Col B, first line, last para: “To perform a manual combine,” should be “To perform a combine manually,”

257

Col B, third line last para, “Clicked” should be “Click”

258

Col B, 4th line from top, “selected n” should be “selected in”

260

Col B, top line: “credible” should be “creditable”

263

Col A, line 17 from bottom: “temerpature-induced” should be “temperature-induced”

271

Col B, first line in Tip box: “frame” should be “from”

277

Col A, line 6 from bottom: “mall” should be “small”

281

Caption: figure “6.3.1” should be “6.3.31”

287

Col B, line 8 from top: “quik” should be “quick”

289

Col B, line 3 from bottom: “you” should be “your”

291

Col A, line 7 from top: “multiple” should be “multiply”

298

Col B, line 8 from bottom: “mans” should be “means”

315

Col A, line 2 of Tip box: “of an” should be “an”

322

Col B, line 12 from top: “relfected” should be “reflected”

329

Col A, line 1: “manufactures” should be “manufacturers”

329

Col B, line 6: “”scientificly” should be “scientifically.”

331

Figure 7.2.3: in the image, the header in each filter column does not match the chosen filter. No matter what the name is for each of the four columns, you can select any filter that is installed in your filter wheel.

336

Col A, step 1 under MaxIm DL steps: This step should also exist under steps for CCDSoft.

337

Col B, line 3: “The image of the core” should be “The image shows the core”

342

Col B: paragraph above the two bulleted items: “There are two things you need to do if you adjust the white point” should be “There are two ways to adjust the white point…”

343

Col A, 3rd from last line: “chpater” should be “chapter”; last line: “ti” should be “it”

343

Col B, 8th line: “imgae” should be “image”

348

Col B, 5th line from bottom: “simmest” should be “dimmest”

349

Col B, 6th line from bottom: “over the each” should be “over each”

350

Col B, 2nd line: “example show” should be “example shows”

362

Col B, 9th line from bottom: “guidelines” should be “guideline”

363

Col A, 5th line from top: delete extra space at end of sentence (between “do” and period).

365

Last line: “accuracte” should be “accurate”

367

Col B, middle paragraph, middle line: “brightens” should be “brightness”

370

Col A, second line from bottom: “scrren” should be “screen”

376

Col A, 5th line from bottom: “contain” should be “contains”

378-386

Figure numbers in the legends repeat. Figure numbers should run from 8.1.23 through 8.1.40.

386

Col B, last line of Tip box: “hige” should be “high”

397

Col B, lines 5, 6, and 7 from bottom: “Use a smaller radius if the noise is objectionable, and a larger threshold if the image is noisy” should read “Use a smaller radius if the noise is objectionable after you apply the filter. If the image itself is noisy before you sharpen, either don’t sharpen at all, or use a larger threshold value to reduce the likelihood of sharpening the noise (which would make it more obvious after sharpening).”

398

Col A, line 11 from top: “to only” should be “only to”

404

Col B, line 4 from top: “try again different” should be “try again with different”

408

Col B, item 5, line two: “se” should be “see”

409

Figure numbers should be 8.2.26 and 8.2.27.

410

Figure numbers should be 8.2.28 and 8.2.29.

410

Col B, 4th line: “by” should be “be”

411

Figure number should be 8.2.30.

411

Col A, 8th line from bottom: “deconvolved” should be “deconvolve”

414

Col A, 6th line from bottom: “Sharpening is main” should be “Sharpening is the main”

432

Col B, line 19 from top: “shows” should be “show”

434

Fig 9.3.8 is a combination of ten 2-minute exposures and Fig 9.3.9 is a combination of two 10-minute exposures.

437

Col B, line 2: “sopphisticated” should be “sophisticated”

439

Col A, 11th line from top (6th line below Tip box): “wil” should be “will”

442

Col B, bottom: Hide the selection boundary using the ctrl-H keyboard toggle.

445

Col B, line 6 from top: “determine if” should be “determine if it”